David Mikkelson
David Mikkelson founded the site now known as snopes.com back in 1994 as a creative outgrowth of his wide-ranging interests in a variety of subjects (particularly folklore) and his professional expertise in the computer industry. Handling everything from researching and writing articles about urban legends to managing the site’s technical infrastructure, David saw snopes.com (which antedated the development of automated search engines) quickly become the go-to place for Internet users to query about anything questionable they encountered online, establishing it as the oldest and best known online fact-checking outlet operating today. David’s educational background includes a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas (San Antonio) and about a zillion course hours of post-graduate classes at California State University Northridge taken with no particular degree program in mind. His previous employment encompassed stints with the News-Chronicle (newspaper), Teledyne Electronics, USPS, JPL, Digital Equipment Corporation, Rocketdyne, and Health Net (HMO).
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 21, 2010
Does a Facebook Christmas tree app harbor a virus that will crash your computer?
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Nov. 18, 2010
Is the MS-13 gang planning to murder an innocent victim at the Broadway Mall in Hicksville?
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Nov. 14, 2010
A list of 'You may be a Muslim' jokes did not originate with comedian Jeff Foxworthy.
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Nov. 14, 2010
Do federal regulations require states to upgrade all street name signs to use mixed case lettering?
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Nov. 11, 2010
Photographs show an automobile attacked by a mountain lion?
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Nov. 10, 2010
A woman approached by a stranger at a gas station was injected with a knockout drug via a handshake?
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Nov. 9, 2010
Jackie Buyher: missing child or Internet hoax?
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Nov. 8, 2010 (Updated: Jan. 4, 2022)
A prayer request for the Darkhorse Marine battalion fighting in Afghanistan is several years old.
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Nov. 6, 2010
Claims that a 1977 episode of 'Happy Days' spurred a huge increase in library card applications ...
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Nov. 6, 2010
Will President Obama's November 2010 trip to India cost $200 million per day?
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Nov. 3, 2010
A child injured his arm through extended wearing of Silly Bandz?
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Nov. 3, 2010
Photograph shows a DeWalt manufactured 'rapid-fire nail gun'?
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Nov. 1, 2010
An 1890 gravestone supposedly bears an anti-Democratic epitaph.
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Nov. 1, 2010
The Obama administration disenfranchised 2.8 million overseas military voters by failing to send ...
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Oct. 23, 2010
A 1979 Pakistan airline advertisement shows the shadow of a jetliner on the World Trade Center. ...
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Oct. 21, 2010
Hunter Scott, a 6-year-old boy with brain cancer, wants birthday cards?
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Oct. 19, 2010
Photograph shows an elk hunter being stalked by a mountain lion?
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Oct. 11, 2010
Photographs show residents of Costa Rica poaching sea turtle eggs?
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Oct. 7, 2010
Did Ben Stein say that 'Obama wants every citizen to prove they are insured, but people don't ha ...
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Oct. 6, 2010
A one-year-old girl named Gabrielle Dahm is missing from her home in Florida?
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